Caroline Rose released her new album "Loner "

Caroline Rose released her new album Loner last February through New West Records. Loner was produced by Caroline Rose and Paul Butler (Devendra Banhart, Michael Kiwanuka, Hurray For The Riff Raff).

An obsession with money, an unfaithful lover, a friend’s accidental pregnancy, misogyny, loneliness, death... This is just some of the lighthearted subject matter that make up Loner – the darkly comedic second album from songwriter/producer Caroline Rose. Armed with an arsenal of new instruments and equipment, an ever-growing sense of “ahhh fuck it,” two years of exploration, and a wicked sense of humor, Rose delivers a set of serious songs wrapped in a sprightly, angsty pop burrito. Because, as Rose puts it, “Sometimes sad songs just need a cocktail.”

Loner captures the cheeky satire, comical musings, and often jarring mood swings – sometimes goofy, sometimes emotional – that make up much of Rose’s personality. Filled with catchy synth hooks, Ray Manzarek-esque Farfisa, surf guitar, depth of thought and a punk attitude, Loner captures the energy of bands like Le Tigre and The Cramps, and nods to the styles of Blondie and DEVO, the pop hooks of icons like Justin Timberlake, all the while being inspired by the artistry of Kate Bush.

The reason that Rose wanted to co-produce the album was the blatant lack of gender diversity in the music industry. “I noticed over the course of all these meetings [with music industry people] there was not a single female or nonbinary producer. Then the more I read up on why, the more I realized there actually are a lot of us, we just aren’t taken as seriously and either don’t receive or don’t demand the credit that we deserve.”

Today the new video for the song Bikini was released. “A lot of my aesthetic tends to be very tongue-in-cheek, so I wanted to take a serious subject, in this case misogyny, and just sort of turn it around to laugh at it. I think satire can be used as an incredible tool to take the power away from the powerful when necessary. It was important to me to make sure the video was body positive. When we think of 'girls in bikinis,' the tendency is to see tall white models with perfect bodies. I knew that would be missing the point of the song.” - says Rose.